Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. [14], 155, [1]pp (text), [63]pp (plates), [12], 175, [1]pp (text), [65]pp (plates). Splendid gilt-tooled crushed full black morocco with gold lettering on spines. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Ribbon marker. Title..... More
Francofurti ad Oderam (Frankfurt an der Oder): Michaelis Gottschalckii (Michael Gottschack), 1700. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original full calf. Title page in Yiddish and Latin. Vignette on title page. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. First complete printing of the New Testament in Yiddish. The first effort at a Yiddish translation..... More
Paris: A. W. Schulgen, ND (ca 1851). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Unpaginated. Contemporary half morocco over maroon cloth with gilt lettering and tooling on spine and gold lettering on front cover. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Silk textured endpapers. Title page and text pages within red frame. Stunning collection..... More
Trenton, [NJ]: Isaac Collins, 1788. Early American edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4"). Unpaginated. [A1] to [Kkk8]. Contemporary full calf covers rebacked with modern morocco. Previous owner's inscription on inside of front cover and on title page (Elias Nason*). This is first New Testament printed in New Jersey..... More
Paris: NP, 1542. Third edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Vellum binding. Red page edges. Illustrated title page. New Testament. Illustrated with woodcuts. Age wear. In Latin. Good condition. More
London: Types Societatis ad promovendam Christianitatem inter judaeos, excudebat B. R. Goakman, 1813. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Large Octavo. ix, 247 leaves. Light gray cloth. New Testament in Hebrew prepared by Thomas Fry and William Bengo Collyer based on the translation of Elias Hutter to promote the Christian religion among the Jews..... More
Lugd. Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officina Elzeviriorum, 1633. Second Elzevir edition. Hardcover. 36mo (5 x 2 3/4"). [16], 861, 34, [1]pp. Contemporary full vellum with gilt-lettered leather title laid on spine. Title page in red and black lettering. Engraved printer's device on title. Decorative headpieces and initials. Second Elzivir edition of..... More
London: Petr. Elmsly, Halae Saxonum, Jo. Jac. Curtii haeredes; volume 2: Halae Saxonum and Jo. Jac. Curtii, 1796, 1806. Ex-Library Editio Secunda Emendatior Multoque Locupletior. Hardcover. Quarto. [16] cxxxii, 1 foldout, 554 (1), xl, 684, 40pp. (with 1 facsimile of the Book of John, in two typefaces, bound into the..... More
Hamburgi: Cum privilegiis. Typis & impensis Autoris: NP, 1664-1667. Hardcover. 12mo. Contemporary leather with gold borders on front and back board. Gold-lined raised bands. All edges gauffered. 3 parts bound in 1 as published, each with separate dated title-page (* full title-page of part 2 & 3 below). Part 1..... More
Francofurti (Francfort): Apud Joan. Beyerum, Joan. Wilhelmum Ammonium, & Wilhelmum Serlinum, 1659. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 1/2 x 8 1/4"). [44], 6, [8], 7-1394, [106]pp (Index). Original full vellum, with handwritten title on spine. Title page in red and black lettering. Large engraved title vignette depicting a winged horse..... More
[Geneva]: Oliva Pauli Stephani, 1600. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 3/4 x 9"). [6] leaves, 535, [1], 133 [i.e. 131] (page 131 of the supplement misnumbered 133), [1]pp. Modern half brown morocco over grey linen, with gold lettering and decoration to spine. Modern marbled endpapers. Large engraved title vignette. Decorative..... More
Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): Ex Officina Rogeri Danielis (Roger Daniels), 1642. Reprint. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 9"). [16], 766, [20]pp; [24], 125, [5]pp (Commentary by Joachim Camerarius). Contemporary blind-ruled full calf. Engraved vignette on each title. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. This edition of the Greek Testament is a reprint of Theodore..... More
London: Printed for the author and sold by G. Whitfield, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2"). xxviii, [v]-xl, 1172pp (Vol. 1); xii, 1015, [1], lxxxvii, [1017]-1063, [1]pp (Vol. 2). Contemporary full marbled calf, with gold lettering to spines. First edition of this powerful "Commentary on the New Testament"..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Socii, 1894, 1907, 1926. Softcover. 3 volumes. 4to. lxxx, 1053pp. 1428pp, cccvi, 1168pp. Volume one in modern red, volume 2 and volume 3 in original brown wrappers, all with black lettering and illustration to wrappers and spine. Scuffing, rubbing, discoloration and tearing to wrappers. All page edges..... More
Erlangen; Leipzig: Apud Ioannem Carolum Tetzschnerum, 1755-1756-1757. Editio nova (new edition). Hardcover. Quarto. [26], 1180, [52]pp (Vol. I), [6], 1288, [70]pp (Vol. II.(1), Vol. II.(2)). Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering and ruling to spines. Raised bands. Decorative paper edges. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in first volume. Three..... More
London: T. R. Harrison (for the British & Foreign Bible Society), 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. [4], 261, [1]pp. Original blind-stamped cloth, with gold lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Binding signed by Watkins. A rare first edition of the Gospels of Matthew and John, of the Acts, and..... More
London: Richard Edwards/ T. Hamilton, 1810. Ex-library, First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (lxxii) (1) 275pp. Brown over blue-grey paper boards, with black handwritten lettering on the front cover. White label on the spine. Pages uncut. Engraved frontispiece portrait of John Wycliffe. The book is new edition of the New Testament portion..... More
Francofurti (Francfort): Apud Thomam Fritsch, 1714. Second edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 3/4 x 8"). [12], 600pp; [2], 724, [12]pp (Index). Contemporary full vellum with gilt lettered leather label to spine. Both title pages with an engraved vignette of a winged horse. Woodcut initials. Second edition of Jean Le Clerc’s commentary..... More
Venetiis: Typografia Balleoniana, 1735. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XVI, 704, LII, 348pp. Original full vellum with gold lettering on spines. All edges marbled. Title-pages with woodcut vignettes. Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces. Fascinating historical and geographical work profusely illustrated with numerous in-text woodcut illustrations and 4 folding engraving plates, including..... More
London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1904. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. viii, 228pp., 7 plates. Original blue wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Printed in red and black. With two legends from a Vatican MS by Prof. Ignazio Guidi, and an appendix of Syriac Palimpsest fragments of the..... More
Lipsiae (Leipzig): Jo. Fried. Gleditschi, 1702. Revised (Editio correctior). Hardcover. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5"). [28], 1752 columns (876pp), [400]pp. Contemporary full vellum with handwritten title to spine. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative head-, tailpieces and initials. Originally published in Herborn in 1619, Georg Pasor's koine Greek*..... More
Broxbourne: Impensis Societatis ob Biblia Sacra, tum apud Britannos tum apud Exteros evulganda, institutæ, 1815. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8"). [4], 519, [1]pp. Modern full cloth with gold lettering to spine. Published shortly after the author's death, Claudius Buchanan's "Evangelia Sancta, necnon Acta Apostolorum Syriace, cum Interpretatione..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xxxi, 201pp. 7 facsimile plates. Original blue wraps with black lettering on cover, reinforced with blue library tape on spine, white handwritten lettering, housed in grass green buckram library portfolio box with gilt lettering on spine. "The present volume does something..... More
Lipsiae (Leipzig): F. A. Brockhaus, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 x 10"). LXXXI, [1], 148, [1] leaves. Contemporary 3/4 vellum over cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. All paper edges red. Original thick wrappers bound in. Publisher's logo on front wrap and title page. First edition of..... More
Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/4 x 7 1/2"). 27, [3]pp (Text), [234] leaves (Plates). Modern brown cloth, with white lettering to spine. First edition of this complete reproduction in phototype of the ancient Armenian Gospel manuscript. In 1891, F. C. Conybeare discovered a very..... More